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so I have a question are your feet

shrinking on keto I have so many people

who tell me this now they have to go out

and buy some new shoes after buying this

new wardrobe of losing all this weight

it’s very very expensive to do keto by

the way now the reason for that is that

you’ve been holding fluid you had fluid

retention glycogen which is the storage

of sugar in the body so when you’re

doing a lot of carbs you’re running your

body off of stored sugar okay it’s

called glycogen each gram of glycogen is

bonded to two grams of water so glycogen

is basically a fluid-filled sponge when

you do keto and lower your carbs you

dump all this fluid it’s very common to

lose 10 pounds of fluid but many people

lose 20 or more pounds of fluid within

the first two weeks easily so glucose

basically holds fluid okay water follows

glucose so in a diabetic for example

when they have high sugar if it gets to

a certain point where it’s too much it

starts to go through you and does not

get reabsorbed to the kidneys so you’re

gonna eliminate a lot more sugar and

wherever the sugar goes there goes to

water that’s why I diabetic piece so

frequently and they’re thirsty so often

it’s the glucose so your body is getting

rid of this excess poison I’m sorry

glucose glucose retains sodium so you’re

gonna retain water just from that and

also you’re gonna be releasing excessive

amounts of potassium potassium is a

diuretic so if you don’t have enough

potassium you have too much sodium

you’re just gonna retain fluid this is

why one of the recommendations is to

consume a lot of salad or vegetables to

get your potassium and your magnesium up

because you need these minerals for

various things and I can spot this a

mile away if I’m somewhere and someone’s

wearing sandals and I’m just looking

down I can see that they have a Dima

they have swelling on their feet and

it’s just so tempting to go up to them

and say excuse me ma’am um do you

realize you’re consuming too much sugar

yeah

what’s your shoe size chances are you’re

really a seven and you’re just retaining

way too much fluid and it’s very

strange because people actually get

offended when I tell them they have

fluid retention I don’t know why that is

but getting rid of this excess fluid is

very important because it’s going to

take the pressure off the heart it’s

going to give you the right amount of

hydration that you need and you’re gonna

have less edema and swelling in your

lower legs and extremities all right

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